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Latitude: 55.0246 / 55°1'28"N
Longitude: -4.8342 / 4°50'3"W
OS Eastings: 218926
OS Northings: 573682
OS Grid: NX189736
Mapcode National: GBR 41.TH5D
Mapcode Global: WH2RQ.QY5Y
Entry Name: Markdhu,cairn 450m ENE of
Scheduled Date: 13 March 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4986
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a cairn of the late neolithic or early Bronze Age immediately to the SE of the Stranraer to Glasgow railway line. It measures 6.4m in diameter and 0.4 m high. The area to be scheduled encloses the cairn and an area around it in which traces of
activity associated with its use may be found. It measures 20m in diameter, centred on the cairn but excluding the modern fence beside
the railway and the area to the W of it, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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